Joshua Roberdon

Joshua Roberdon (14 May 1600-25 July 1668) was a politician of the Kingdom of England.

Biography
Joshua Roberdon was born in Norwich, Norfolk, Kingdom of England to a Catholic family. Persecuted in England, Roberdon moved to the United Provinces in 1617 with his family, but had to move to Normandy in the Kingdom of France in 1621 when the Eighty Years' War resumed in the Netherlands. Roberdon lived in the city of Caen, where he met his wife Mary Uxton, a fellow Catholic from Bournemouth. In 1634, however, he left France with his wife to go to the Province of Maryland, a new colony in the British Americas that was founded on the idea of freedom of religion. Roberdon met up with many other English Catholics there and became a politician, sitting in the legislature for Maryland until his death in 1668.